Florida produces about 95 percent...

-- AQUACULTURE RESEARCH.

March 21, 1988|By Jerry Jackson of the Sentinel staff

-- AQUACULTURE RESEARCH. Florida produces about 95 percent of the tropical fish grown in the United States. But many species cannot be spawned in captivity because of reproductive limitations. To help overcome that barrier, the Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture at the University of Florida will conduct reproductive biology studies on species of tropical fish that, for the most part, have not been reproduced in the United States. Researchers will attempt to develop techniques and hormones needed for succesful spawning.